Early this year, I participated in a workshop conducted by a NGO called Foundation for Restoration of Nations Values, and met the metro-man, Dr. E. Sreedharan — the man behind the major metro train projects in India. I found few of the discussed ideas to be overlapping with my own thoughts.

As we talk about values and ethics, and point out to the wrongs in system; and also talk about restoration of the good that we had in our culture, I try analysing what went wrong and even before that, what was good. I think of a few mythological stories where we talk about Gods, I notice that even in that time the focus used to be on performance. For example, in hindu mythology, where the king of devtas, Indra was selected purely based on his good deeds; and if at any point of time another man, who was able to outperform, Indra would replace him from the position of Indra. In simple words, Indra was the designation given to the best man on the earth to supervise the arrangements needed to run the p…

I found these movies reflecting urban society and other social issues that we experience and observe around us in our day-to-day lives.
1. Coco -- I enjoyed depiction of afterlife, greed, and the concept of 'connecting the dots' that unfolds it all.